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“furnish” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

furnish
To supply (with accusative of thing), suppeditare (e.g., the money, the expense, water, corn, etc.): praebere: praestare (to afford; praebere panem, sumtum: to furnish a lighter diet, leviorem cibum praestare, of birds): providere (to furnish beforehand what will be required, arma; ligna in hiemem).
To supply with anything, aliquem aliqua re instruere (general term for providing with what is necessary): ornare: exornare aliquem aliqua re (κοσμεῖν, διακοσμεῖν; with what is more than barely necessary, with what serves for ornament, luxury, honor, or at all events makes the person’s outfit fully and beautifully complete). (The words are found in this connection and order.) ornare (exornare) atque instruere; instruere et ornare: suppeditare alicui aliquid (to procure it in abundance for anybody): prospicere alicui aliquid (to take care that anybody should be provided with anything): subornare aliquem aliqua re (to supply anybody with anything secretly for a secret purpose): praebere alicui aliquid (to supply from one’s own resources; e.g., urbem ei donarat, quae panem praeberet, to furnish him with bread; Nep.): armare aliquem aliqua re (to provide anybody with what is necessary for attack or defence; e.g., accusatorem omnibus rebus). To furnish anybody with money, aliquem pecunia ornare, instruere; pecuniam alicui suppeditare; pecunia aliquem subornare (clandestinely): to furnish with provisions (e.g., the army), exercitui commeatum prospicere; exercitui frumentum or rem frumentariam providere: to be furnished with anything, aliqua re instructum esse; aliquid habere: to be abundantly furnished with anything, aliqua re abundare; aliquid mihi abundantissime suppetit. [Vid: FURNISHED.] Our men had furnished themselves with one thing that was of great use, una res erat magno usui praeparata a nostris. To furnish one’s self with anything, aliquid sibi comparare (general term for procuring it); providere aliquid or alicui rei (with reference to a future need of it; arma, ligna in hiemem); se armare aliqua re (with a means of attack or defence; e.g., with a stock of impudence, impudentia).
To fit up, instruere (Vid: Cic., Verr., 4, 5, 9; Liv., 42, 19): to furnish handsomely, exornare et instruere (Cic., Verr., 2, 34, 84). Vid: FURNISHED.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for furnish?
The usual Latin words for “furnish” are suppeditō, praebeō, praestō; also prōvideō, ōrnō, īnstruō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.